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As aQuality Governance Facilitator,you'll be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group. You will feel valued as anQuality Governance Facilitatorwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: £30,000 with group pension (Fixed-Term until July 2025) Private medical insurance with fast access to the most used specialists including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support at locations across the country Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location in Runcorn Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality CommissionThe Ideal CandidateEssential Criteria Healthcare and Governance Expertise: Direct experience in healthcare settings, with a solid grasp of clinical governance processes, quality, and assurance best practices. Patient Safety Knowledge: Strong understanding of the NHS patient safety agenda, healthcare compliance, and clinical governance standards. Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written abilities for effective engagement with healthcare stakeholders. Self-Motivated: Ability to work independently, prioritising demands in a healthcare assurance environment. Attention to Detail: High-quality work with meticulous accuracy, essential for maintaining clinical governance and assurance. Presentation Skills: Skill in preparing clear, detailed reports and presentations on complex healthcare information. Audit Experience: Proven experience applying audit findings to drive quality improvement in healthcare. Desirable Criteria Regulatory Knowledge: Understanding of relevant legislation for independent healthcare providers. Professional Development: Relevant qualifications or interest in further education in governance or quality assurance. Implementation Experience: Experience introducing new systems or processes in healthcare governance.

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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Support specialist confidentiality and privacy by design advice on the implementation of the IG legal framework, IG national policy requirements, new Statutory Guidance, organisational standards, policies and controls across internal and external facing operational services. Draft and publish IG advice in response to IG queries received, emerging trends and new national guidelines from across the organisation. Support strategic advice to the Freedom of Information (FOI) lead and key stakeholders on complex requests, internal reviews and ICO investigations. Provide line management responsibilities for the Freedom of Information lead ensuring that all aspects of performance, attendance, training and appraisal are addressed in accordance with Trust Policy. Expected to Deputise for the IG Lead as necessary, on matters within scope of expertise. Plan and progress work to ensure that IG policies and procedures are embedded in the programmes, divisions across the organisation. Reporting assurances/gaps on outcomes of best practice and standards set out in policy and procedures to Divisional leads and Caldicott panel. Plan and deliver training to Trust staff at all levels, through a variety of formats designed to meet the specific needs of the organisation with reference to GDPR and FOI. Provide leadership in managing the statutory information requests function of the IG Team, including FOI, information rights requests. Provide assurance on Information Governance and Statutory Guidance compliance through a schedule of assurance reviews and activity, including in respect of high-risk processing, internal data protection audits, and audits of data use and sharing, both internal and external to the Trust. Assist assurance for Digital Services Leads and Information Asset Owners in their compliance against standards, through peer reviews, engagement with audits, advice and guidance of compliance management. Drive compliance with the Confidentiality elements of the Data Security & Protection Toolkit (DSPT or equivalent) requirements and support work to co-ordinate and assure the Trust annual DSPT or equivalent submission. Work Collaboratively with Divisions to evidence their compliance with principles of the DSPT and the Digital teams on wider components Lead on maintenance of the Trust Register of Processing Activities (RoPa) including reviews of Data Flows, within Divisions, from Systems and provision of data sets supporting audit/research/analysis. Being the lead for establishing correct legal basis for any processing of data, inclusive of use of consent and national data opt out. Collaborate with key Stake Holders (internal and external to the Trust) on Supply Chain Risks. Considering current supplier due diligence requirements, on boarding the Information Asset Owners (IAOs) with key programmes of assurance and maintaining accuracy of the Information Asset Register.

Operational Responsibilities Responsible for raising awareness about the CQC Registration Requirements across all areas of the Trust and will need a thorough understanding of national inspection criteria and links with CQC Registration Requirements, other national directives, litigation and claim implications. Responsible for the development of a system for the analysis of intelligence against the CQC registration requirements. The system will provide assurance of compliance and indications of potential non compliance. Responsible for supporting the identification and analysis of information intelligence sources which provide assurance of compliance or indications of risk of non-compliance with CQC Registration requirements. Responsible for ensuring policy documents meet the CQC registration requirements and the robust implementation and monitoring of all policy documents. Responsible for facilitating in the development and collection of evidence for external Trust inspections including DOH inspections, peer reviews and CQC inspections. Will participate in comprehensive inspections of compliance and will be responsible for monitoring outcomes against any inspection criteria and ensuring that information is fed back to improve service delivery and that any changes are implemented to meet the agreed timescales. The post holder will be responsible for assisting with the management of the external visits/inspection and accreditations system. This will include keeping a schedule of all expected visits/inspections and accreditations; keeping a record of all recommendations made at such visits; monitoring that action plans are completed; and that all committees of the Trust have been informed appropriately. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that robust evidence is available for external inspections in the appropriate electronic format (where possible). This will involve negotiating with the key corporate and operational managers/clinicians on individual criteria and agree action plans to achieve required objectives. Meet with key personnel regularly monitor progress and ensure that any barriers to project delivery are addressed. Will prepare and co-ordinate all aspects of external assessment days in liaison with the Head of Compliance and Emergency Planning. This will include informing key personnel that they will need to be available on the assessment day to provide further evidence in person. Responsible for supporting and facilitating internal comprehensive inspections of Trust services and teams against CQC registration requirements. This will involve management of an annual calendar of inspections in partnership with operational and other support services, development of appropriate audit tools and review of intelligence held. Responsible for the coordination of Healthwatch and Director and Governor Quality visits. Responsible for ensuring that national best practice, legislative and CQC requirements are considered as part of all policy/procedure and strategy review. Responsible for assisting with the development and maintenance of the system that provides assurance to the Trust Board of Directors on the levels of compliance with Trust policies/ procedures and strategies across the trust. Responsible for designing appropriate monitoring methods and audit tools, where they do not already exist and reviewing existing methods and tools to ensure all policy/procedures and strategies are monitored effectively for compliance. Overview of Trust policies and procedures to ensure DoH fundamental standards and CQC key lines of enquiry (KLOEs)/Quality Statements are incorporated Communication and Working Relationships The role requires excellent communication skills both verbal and written, with the ability to develop collaborative working practices and relationships at all levels within the Trust. This will require the post holder to have well developed IT skills, particularly in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point software programmes. The post holder will be responsible for supporting and sharing information intelligence at all appropriate levels of the Trust and providing intelligence for Trust Quality Summits. The post holder will report to the Head of Compliance and Emergency Planning; and Executive Team regarding performance against the external inspection requirements and highlight any barriers which may affect the project plan. This will include preparing written reports to appropriate committees. Responsible for supporting all services/locations across the Trust to maintain compliance with the CQC Registration Requirements. This will include facilitating each area to have a completed and up to date Local Portfolio of Evidence. The post holder will be responsible for supporting managers in the understanding and implementation of external inspections, including policy/procedure requirements and what constitutes appropriate evidence. The post holder, with support from the Head of Compliance and Emergency Planning, will ensure Senior Managers are aware of the relevance and importance of the standards to the Trusts strategic plan and for risk management. This will include ensuring that information is cascaded to staff at all levels by way of intranet, newsletters and Trust publications. The post holder will be responsible for undertaking/facilitating monitoring and auditing in partnership with Trust key leads of Trust policies/procedures and strategies where existing monitoring / auditing arrangements are not in place. The post holder will be responsible for proposing policy or service changes following audit/monitoring findings. This will involve participation on working parties proposing Trust wide policy changes in all areas of the Trust and all types of policy. The post holder will assist clinical leads with care planning developments in the Trust, including facilitation of trust documentation reviews. The post holder will support Emergency Planning, including logging decisions, as and when required. Management The post holder will be responsible for attending appropriate Service Management Team meetings on behalf of the Compliance Team to present reports. The post holder will be responsible for attending appropriate committee meetings on behalf of the Compliance Team. Line management responsibility for staff including objective setting, conducting appraisals, monitoring training, compliance and day to day supervision. Training & Development To undertake ongoing Personal and Professional Development in order to maintain own professional standards through attendance on training and education programmes commensurate with the duties of this post. To keep informed and up to date with developments in the areas of statutory and corporate requirements, technological developments and best practices in RMS and To ensure the consideration of patients and carers experience in all aspects of work. Analysis and Judgement The post holder will have and will utilise: Highly developed analytical skills to understand and communicate complex information at all organisational levels. Clear and confident judgement making skills. Decisive decision making skills, informed by evidence. The ability to interpret national guidance into local policy and procedure. Physical, Mental and Emotional Effort The post holder will be responsible for developing, maintaining and managing an IT based RMS compliance system. The post holder will be required to have good IT skills including excel, file management and outlook skills. The post holder will be required to have good keyboard skills and will be required to spend considerable amounts of time using the computer. The post holder will be required to input using a keyboard and to move service user case notes for the purpose of auditing. The post holder will be required to undertake frequent, prolonged and intent concentration in analysing complex information/data and while undertaking complex calculation and detailed analysis of statistics produced. The post holder will be required to work in all areas of the Trust (clinical and non-clinical) and will be required to work with clinical information such as service users case notes, incidents, SUIs, complaints and claims for the purpose of monitoring and reporting. The post holder will also be required to frequently travel to the different Trust sites to undertake audit and monitoring.

For more information on working for the Trust, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

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